Stephen Curry enjoying his brother Seth’s career year in Dallas

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Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry (30) tries to drive around his brother Dallas Mavericks’ Seth Curry (30) in the first half of a NBA game at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 30, 2016. (Ray Chavez/Bay Area News Group)

OAKLAND — It’s been a career year for Seth Curry — Steph’s brother — who has forced his way into the Mavericks’ starting lineup and scorched since arriving there.

Since the All-Star break, Seth has had scoring nights of 31, 29, 24, 22 and 21. While securing his once shaky standing in the NBA, he is a key reason Dallas has vaulted itself back into eighth-seed contention.

“It’s been amazing,” his brother Steph said. “He’s taken advantage of an opportunity to be in that starting lineup, getting significant minutes and playing well. He has crazy confidence and swag about him. You love to see that. He obviously deserves to be in this league and he’s been proving that every day since he’s shown up in Dallas.”

Seth has been deadly accurate the past few months, making 50 percent of his 3s in January, 46 percent in February and 45 percent so far in March. Because of that extended hot streak, he is up to 43.1 percent on this season, the fifth best clip in the league and even better than his two-time MVP brother, who is under 40 percent from 3 this season for the first time in his career. Their parents are quite aware.

“My pops (Dell), he was doing a game for the Hornets, doing some stats research,” Steph said. “They showed 3-point percentage and there were two Currys on the list — two S-dot-Currys — and Seth was up here and I was down here. He made sure to take a picture of that and send it to both of us.”

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